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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Requires the Louisiana Legislative Auditor to evaluate state tax incentives (EN +$43,000 GF EX See Note)"
+description: "LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Requires the Louisiana Legislative Auditor to evaluate state tax incentives (EN +$43,000 GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 535"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 535 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mandie Landry"]
+version_count: 13
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ea24e49-a8ca-42c4-b697-ddd0454e7ba0"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248581"
+source_hash: "38e64c96b87a083770976a3e0819e43a16bea0e7b5eb0befe7c7ef4288111344"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 535 (2025) — LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Requires the Louisiana Legislative Auditor to evaluate state tax incentives (EN +$43,000 GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB535 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404240)
+2. **HB535 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425998)
+3. **HB535 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416737)
+4. **HB535 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420537)
+5. **HB535 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418329)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2818, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414410)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #3157, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416021)
+8. **House Committee Amendment, #3236, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416682)
+9. **House Committee Amendment, #3459, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417862)
+10. **House Committee Amendment, #3529, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418398)
+11. **House Floor Amendment, #3881, Landry, Mandie, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420269)
+12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3139, Carter, Gary, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423253)
+13. **HB535 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425162)
+
+## Votes
+
+- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1137) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1243) — **82–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#774) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- DISCHARGE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE (#1223) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#800) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mandie Landry — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 377. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-12** Read by title, roll called, yeas 82, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2025-06-12** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended.
+- **2025-06-12** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-06-12** Reconsidered.
+- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended.
+- **2025-06-12** Notice Senate discharged from Conference Committee.
+- **2025-06-12** Senate Conference Committee members discharged.
+- **2025-06-12** Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee and concurred in the Senate amendments.
+- **2025-06-11** Discharged from Conference Committee.
+- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2025-06-11** Senate conference committee members appointed: Carter, Kleinpeter, and Miller.
+- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Mandie Landry, Beaullieu, and Emerson.
+- **2025-06-10** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
+- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
+- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
+- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2025-06-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
+- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-02** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-06-02** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-06-02** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-05-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
+- **2025-05-29** Notice given.
+- **2025-05-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/2025.
+- **2025-05-28** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-27** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means.
+- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments (10-0) with recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Ways and Means. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ea24e49-a8ca-42c4-b697-ddd0454e7ba0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+